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About GitHub Connect

To enable GitHub Connect, you must configure the connection in both your GitHub Enterprise instance and in your GitHub Business Cloud organization. To configure the connection, you must be a site administrator for your GitHub Enterprise instance and be an owner for the GitHub Business Cloud organization.

GitHub Enterprise stores credentials from the GitHub App. These credentials will be replicated to any high availability or clustering environments, and stored in any backups, including snapshots created by GitHub Enterprise Backup Utilities.

An authentication token, which is valid for one hour

A private key, which is used to generate a new authentication token

Enabling GitHub Connect will not allow GitHub.com users to make changes to GitHub Enterprise.